Bonjour to Bourjois and Nathalie Lété

A quick survey of Parisian artist Nathalie Lété’s recent work is enough to leave one feeling breathless: Her whimsical, vintage-inspired illustrations, which conjure up a fairy-tale world inhabited by poetic butterflies, botanicals, and rosy-cheeked creatures, have been commissioned for haute ceramics (Astier de Vilatte), cotton-voile bedding (Anthropologie), and even children’s picture books (this month’s Le Petit Chaperon Rouge coffret from Éditions Thierry Magnier). This month, she’s dipping her brush into the realm of beauty by teaming up with Bourjois cosmetics for their limited-edition Rendez-vous à Paris eye-shadow collection (above). The historic French makeup line—which became a fast favorite among the capital’s stage actresses upon its creation by Alexandre Napoleon Bourjois in 1863, and is now owned by Chanel—is, like Lété, deeply enamored of the City of Light. (The artist has sprinkled everything from handmade postcards to paper-wrapped chocolates with iconic images of Paris.) Accordingly, each shadow pot (featuring the company’s silky “baked-powder” pigments in shades of violet, silver, beige, and black) features a beloved local landmark on its face—the towering obelisk of the Place Vendôme, the melancholy banks of the Seine—as seen through Lété’s quirky cool, fruit-punch-colored lens. This writer’s favorite: a scenic street map of the Rue St. Honoré that recalls victorious shopping trips and breezy outdoor cafés with a smattering of Lété’s lucky ladybugs and four-leaf clovers. $14 each, debuting this week at Ulta stores and ulta.com.